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JAMES ROSS
But I ittle is known of the early I ife of Elder Ross: indeed the materials
for a sketch of his 1 ife, placed in the hands of the writer have been of a very
I imited character. The solemn announcement that, that venerable man, Elder
James Ross is no more, should cause us to pause and reflect. The judgements,
as wel I as the mercies of God, should lead us to ponder our ways, and look
wisely to our latter end.
When the venerable oak beneath whose wide-spreading arms we have spent the
happy days of childhood, is stricken by I ightnings of heaven, or prostrated by
the raging tempest, we view the fal Jen mememto of our happier days with emotions
or sorrow and regret. Busy memory runs rapidly back, to those scenes of youth-
ful pleasure, we have so often enjoyed beneath the shade of that aged tree, we
loved so wel I .--But how is that sorrow and regret heightened, when we stand by
the mortal remains of one whom we have long known, as a friend, and esteemed
as the guide of the flock of Christ. He is gone. Of a tree there is hope,
"the tender branch thereof may sprout again," but "man dieth, yea man goeth
to his long home," and we shal 1 see him no more unti I we meet in the world of
spirits. The grave hides from our view the venerable servant of God, on whose
head the frosts of more than four score winters have shed their chi I I ing in-
fluence, and at the same time covers the manly form of the youth, whose warm
heart beat responsively to the cal Is of duty. No age is exempt from the approach
of death.
"Leaves have their time to fal I And flowers to wither at the northwind's breath, And stars to set--but al I Thou hast a I I seasons for thine own, own, oh death. ii
But death comes to the christian as a friend. The idea of decay to the servant of Christ, suggests only, that of a state necessary to transformation from corruption to incorruption, from degradation to glory, from'earth to heaven.
Elder James Ross was the son of Wm. Ross, Esqr., a gentleman of Scottish
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ancestry. His father moved from Virginia, where the family settled on leaving
Europe, and located South of Roanoke river, where Jas. Ross was born on the
19th of March, 1768, in the I imits that now bound the county of Martin, which
was not detached from the counties of Halifax and Fayette unti I 1774.
He was early led to consider the cal ims of religion, and in his eighteenth
year was baptized by his brother, Elder Martin Ross, into the fellowship of the
church at Skewacky near Wi I I iamston, Martin county. In 1798 he commenced
preaching, and travel led into counties South of Roanoke and Tar rivers dis
pensing the word of I ife to I istening multitudes.
Leaving Martin, Elder Ross was induced to settle in Bertie county, where
he I i ved, honored and esteemed by the good and virtuous unt i I ca I I ed away to
his eternal reward. Elder Spivey, (to whom the writer was indebted for the
few facts here names) writes "He (Elder Ross) was calm and resigned in the
prospect of death, and but a short time prior to his death, expressed him
self to me as having as great a desire to preach the gospel, as he ever had,
although for years unable to preach from physical inabi I ity."
For some time, when too feeble to attend at the house of God, he would
assemble his neighbors at his own residence and expound the truths of God's
sacred word. But he is gone. The venerable patriarch no longer I ives to point
the way to heaven, through the cross of Christ. His virtues and his im
perfections are now covered by the obi ivious pal I of the tomb. On the 6th of
January, 1853, Elder James Ross breathed his last ...
CHOWAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MINUTES, 1853, p. 19 & 20
In his 18th year he was baptized by his brother, Martin
NAME: James Ross
Born in Martin County, 1768--Died, 1853, Age, 85
Ross. He labored as an Evangelist in the counties south
of Roanoke and Tar rivers. He afterwards settled in - Bertie county, where his works praised him. Having
passed the unusual I imit of fourscore and four years,
unable to reach the house of God, he would send for his
neighbors, and dispense to them the Word of Life.
HISTORY OF THEN. C. CHOWAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, 1806-1881
Compiled by: James A. Delke
B/286/D37
Page:
NAME Ross, James
Ancestry William Ross' Sr. ' v a. william Ross, Martin Co., N.C.
b. 9 Aug. 17J1; e. 25 Dec. 1801 b.
Mary (Griffin) Ross Ancestry
Mar/19/176 :if an/6/1853
Married
d.
RecordRoss M/R Windsor B/C 1842- , Chowan Association and Bertie County.
see Biblical Recorder, Jllan. 28, 1853(0bit.) Chowan Baptist Association Minutes, 1853, p. 19.
Dife and Times of Elder R~uben Ross, by James #oss, p. 22 file No.
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